X22 Hard Drive Replacement Question

[artuero]

My wife's X22 is acting up (clicking sound and a Windows XP warning to her). Sounds like the hard drive is about to go. I'd like to get a replacement but am not sure what I should get. Do I just need to look for a 2.5" hard drive or are there some parameters around what will work in the think pad? Thanks!

[Pennstate]

Any 2.5" 9.5mm notebook hard drive will work. Check out www.zipzoomfly.com or www.newegg.com for selections of them. They have the lowest prices. I would suggest you get the latest 5400rpm or perhaps 7200rpm hard drives from these places. Avoid buying 5400rpm hard drives from Ebay. A lot of them are early versions of 5400rpm notebook drives and they are slower than even the newer 4200rpm drives. Check out the seagate momentus or Hitachi 5k100 models. Installation is easy on a X22. Get one that has at least 8MB cache. Partition it to C and D drives, set the virtual memory to D drive and not on C. It will really give your X22 a boost in speed.


For cloning the drive, I highly suggest you to use Acronis True Image. Much better than Norton Ghost or Partition Magic

[joprodse]

Is it really a performanceboost setting the virtual memory to another partition at the same physical drive?

[JHEM]

Is it really a performanceboost setting the virtual memory to another partition at the same physical drive?

No, that's a popular myth. The data has to travel through the same IDE interface when writing to different partitions, so there's no speed increase over writing to the same partition.

If one were to dedicate their Ultrabay to a second HD and use that for the VM, then there would be a small but measurable speed increase as you're using a second IDE channel.

Regards,

James

[artuero]

Thanks very much for the suggestions. I ordered a Hitachi and expect to get it Monday.